Wondering What to Believe?
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Does Nature Give Proof of God?8 Digging Deeper
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Can I Hear God's Voice?8 Digging Deeper
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Digging Deeper
- Does God Care About My Concerns?
- Best practices for a thriving relationship.
- God wants us to know Him
- Ways that God communicates to us today.
- God gives us scriptures through men.
- Life changing love letter from God.
- God provides us a way for a relationship with Him through Jesus.
- Are you too busy for God?
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Who is God?8 Digging Deeper
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Digging Deeper
- God reveals himself throughout time so that people can worship the one true God.
- Evidences of the Existence of God.
- A God that always keeps his word.
- God’s ways above our ways.
- The Truth of God’s Nature.
- God is a loving, caring, beneficent God.
- A God that is God is long-suffering and forgiving.
- Striving to become more like God.
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Who Wrote the Bible?8 Digging Deeper
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Digging Deeper
- The Truth in the Bible.
- The Origin of the Bible
- The single author behind the many writers in the Bible.
- God foreshadowing discoveries made in today’s world.
- Why people downplay the evidences in the Bible.
- Foreshadowing of Jesus in the Old Testament
- Using doubt as an excuse to not change.
- What it means to have faith in the Bible.
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Can I Trust the Bible?7 Digging Deeper
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Digging Deeper
- Is it possible for us to know if the Bible is true?
- The differences and similarities between faith and trust.
- The significance in the magnitude of New Testament manuscripts compared to other ancient manuscripts.
- How large numbers of discovered manuscripts support the authenticity of the Bible.
- Why do you think about the very small (.001) part of critical textual variations found in the New Testament?
- How has the Bible impacted your life?
- Do you trust the Bible?
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Is there a Right and Wrong?7 Digging Deeper
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Digging Deeper
- The different standards for determining what is right and what is wrong.
- Is it in our nature to know what is right and wrong?
- Is right and wrong discerned by each person for themselves or is it ultimately determined by a higher authority?
- What to do in a situation where two people have different beliefs on what is right and wrong?
- Is there a standard when determining what is right and wrong?
- Is the Bible is our absolute moral standard for topics such as honesty, sexuality, the value of human life?
- Do you believe you can determine with absolute certainly what is right and wrong?
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Why Does God Allow Evil?9 Digging Deeper
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Who Am I?7 Digging Deeper
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What is the Meaning of Life?7 Digging Deeper
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Digging Deeper
- What is the meaning of your life? What is your purpose?
- How Jesus brings meaning to our lives.
- How does knowing Jesus will judge both the good and the bad in our lives impact the way we live?
- What do you make of the reading from Ecclesiastes 5:15?
- What do you want to be said about your life when you’re gone?
- How our understanding of the meaning of our life impact the way we live.
- What would you say was the meaning of the life you’ve lived so far?
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Does God Love Me?5 Digging Deeper
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Group Progress
Group Progress
Who are we?
Our beliefs about ourselves, God, and the origin and the purpose of life determine what we do while we live and what we believe happens to us after death.
A person who does not believe in God and thus lives without God has no hope of life after death. This person believes that this life is all there is. There is nothing beyond. This earthly, physical life provides the only love, joy, peace and happiness that he or she will ever have. There is nothing else. This person is waiting for nothing in the future. His only hope is to enjoy all that he can now. When it’s over, it’s over. Forever.
On the other hand, followers of Jesus believe that it is not all of life to exist or all of death to die. Jesus promises them life now and forever. He said that those who believe in him “will never die” (John 11:25-26). He promised, “Because I live, you also will live” (John 14:19). When death occurs, as it does for them as well as for everyone else, they do not cease to exist but go into the spiritual world where Christ receives them (Acts 7:59; Philippians 1:20-21). In the end time, they will be resurrected with a new and glorious body in which they will serve the Lord forever (I Corinthians 15:35-48). The Apostle Paul wrote,
This will all occur when Jesus returns a second time “to eagerly save those that are waiting for him” (Hebrews 9:28). When the Apostle Paul preached the message of Jesus to the Thessalonians, they “turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, 10 and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come” (I Thessalonians 1:9-10). Using sleep as a metaphor for death, Paul wrote to assure them that those who die before the Lord’s return will share in the glory of the resurrection:
This life is not all there is. Followers of Jesus are waiting for the coming of Jesus. He who is with us now will be with us forever. Whether in life or death, he promises us, “I will never leave you nor forsake you” (Hebrews 13:5-6). Nothing, not even death, can separate us from “the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 8:38-39). With the help of God’s Holy Spirit, we serve the Lord faithfully now and the fruit of the Spirit is seen in us (Romans 8:1-30; Galatians 5:16-22). We are strengthened and encouraged by the truth of this benediction:
Someday, God’s people will hear Jesus say, “Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master” (Matthew 25:21).
At the end of our earthly lives, we can confidently affirm with the Apostle Paul: